May 26, 2004 13:42
19 yrs ago
English term
measurement unit
English
Art/Literary
Poetry & Literature
Millat reached over to the headmaster's pocket and pulled out his heavy packet of tobacco. He poured the contents out onto the small coffee table.
"Qi. Chalfen. Ghetto-boy. Measure out an eighth."
Joshua looked at the stinking mountain of brown. "A European eighth or an English eighth?"
"Could you just do as Millat suggests," said the headmaster irritably, leaning forward in his chair to inspect the tobacco. "So we can settle this."
Fingers shaking, Joshua drew a section of tobacco onto his palm and held it up. The headmaster brought Joshua's hand up under Millat's nose for inspection.
"Barely a five-pound draw," said Millat scornfully. ...
Would like to know what is the measurement unit for the "eighth" in the phrase "measure out an eighth"?
"Qi. Chalfen. Ghetto-boy. Measure out an eighth."
Joshua looked at the stinking mountain of brown. "A European eighth or an English eighth?"
"Could you just do as Millat suggests," said the headmaster irritably, leaning forward in his chair to inspect the tobacco. "So we can settle this."
Fingers shaking, Joshua drew a section of tobacco onto his palm and held it up. The headmaster brought Joshua's hand up under Millat's nose for inspection.
"Barely a five-pound draw," said Millat scornfully. ...
Would like to know what is the measurement unit for the "eighth" in the phrase "measure out an eighth"?
Responses
| 4 +6 | [eigth of an] ounce |
Klaus Herrmann
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| 4 +1 | 1/8 ounce |
Alexander Demyanov
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| 5 | an eighth of a pound => 2 ounces |
airmailrpl
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Responses
+6
8 mins
Klaus Herrmann
Germany
Germany
Germany
Best TCO in Technical Translations
Native in: German 
Works in: English to German, German
Related KudoZ points
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4
Selected
[eigth of an] ounce
Seems to be a common packaging unit in this line of business...
Cocaine - Arizona Drug Threat Assessment
... Yuma. An eight-ball (one-eighth ounce) of powdered cocaine sold for
$120 to $150 in Phoenix and $80 to $130 in Tucson. (Eight-ball ...
www.usdoj.gov/ndic/pubs6/6384/cocaine.htm - 24k
The Morning News :: Outdoors :: Banner Year For Beaver Lake's ...
... as 30 feet. Their eighth-ounce jigs are a tad heavier than the sixteenth-ounce
size tied to most fishing lines. That's so the jigs ...
www.nwaonline.net/archive/2004/ 04/16/Outdoors/182515.html
Cocaine - Arizona Drug Threat Assessment
... Yuma. An eight-ball (one-eighth ounce) of powdered cocaine sold for
$120 to $150 in Phoenix and $80 to $130 in Tucson. (Eight-ball ...
www.usdoj.gov/ndic/pubs6/6384/cocaine.htm - 24k
The Morning News :: Outdoors :: Banner Year For Beaver Lake's ...
... as 30 feet. Their eighth-ounce jigs are a tad heavier than the sixteenth-ounce
size tied to most fishing lines. That's so the jigs ...
www.nwaonline.net/archive/2004/ 04/16/Outdoors/182515.html
4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer.
Comment: "Thank you!"
+1
8 mins
Alexander Demyanov
Specializes in field
Software Engineering background
Native in: Russian 
Works in: English, Russian, Russian to English, and 1 more.
Related KudoZ points
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38
1/8 ounce
I believe that's the measurement for marijuana in the street
Peer comment(s):
| agree |
atxp (X)
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airmailrpl
Brazil
Brazil
Native in English
&
English
Works in field
Brazil
Technical - Fast - good price - accurate
Native in: English (Variant: US) , Portuguese (Variant: Brazilian)
Works in: English to Portuguese, Portuguese to English, English, and 1 more.
Related KudoZ points
:
64
an eighth of a pound => 2 ounces
an 'eighth of a pound' is much more likely especiall since they mention
a worth of 5 pounds(5£)
The Badger Herald Online - The life of a student pot dealer: XBOX ...
... The UW junior and psychology major who would like to be known as Smithers said he only sells pot to his friends in eighth-of-a-pound quantities. ...
www.badgerherald.com/vnews/display.v/ ART/2004/05/06/4099b64f18e60
he Daily Life of a Soldier
... month. For personal tidiness, they were issued two livres of soap,
two wooden combs and one eighth of a pound of thread per year. ...
collections.ic.gc.ca/louisbourg/dlylife.html
British Money
... However the name was preserved in the half-crown coin worth 2s 6d (an eighth of a pound) which was the highest value coin when I was a boy. ...
website.lineone.net/~davghalgh/money.html
[PDF] Name: Text 4 Visitors from America
... 8. What is half a crown (a half-crown) (paragraph 7)? A coin. It
was one eighth of a pound, before the currency became decimal. ...
www.teachit.co.uk/pdf/seg9244.pdf
Spices, or the Dawn of the Modern Age
... a quarter pound of cloves and grains of guinea pepper (grains of paradise)...an eighth of a pound of pepper... an eighth of a pound of galingale... ...
www.theepicentre.com/Spices/excerpt2.html
a worth of 5 pounds(5£)
The Badger Herald Online - The life of a student pot dealer: XBOX ...
... The UW junior and psychology major who would like to be known as Smithers said he only sells pot to his friends in eighth-of-a-pound quantities. ...
www.badgerherald.com/vnews/display.v/ ART/2004/05/06/4099b64f18e60
he Daily Life of a Soldier
... month. For personal tidiness, they were issued two livres of soap,
two wooden combs and one eighth of a pound of thread per year. ...
collections.ic.gc.ca/louisbourg/dlylife.html
British Money
... However the name was preserved in the half-crown coin worth 2s 6d (an eighth of a pound) which was the highest value coin when I was a boy. ...
website.lineone.net/~davghalgh/money.html
[PDF] Name: Text 4 Visitors from America
... 8. What is half a crown (a half-crown) (paragraph 7)? A coin. It
was one eighth of a pound, before the currency became decimal. ...
www.teachit.co.uk/pdf/seg9244.pdf
Spices, or the Dawn of the Modern Age
... a quarter pound of cloves and grains of guinea pepper (grains of paradise)...an eighth of a pound of pepper... an eighth of a pound of galingale... ...
www.theepicentre.com/Spices/excerpt2.html
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